T-minus 24 hours

We’re less than a day away from the rally, and Washington has turned into reddit central. We met a redditor on our plane, sitting right in front of us. We saw a group of redditors in t-shirts at baggage claim, excitedly exchanging QR codes. And the local football team announced that they’re changing their name to the Washington Reddits. One of the preceding sentences is not true.

If you missed Wednesday’s rally update, go read that first. It turns out that, despite its title, there are a few more things we need to tell you.

The weather report is looking great. A light jacket and your reddit t-shirt should be the perfect attire.

DonorsChoose is going to have a tent at the rally, and has generously given something back to the reddit community: territory. They’ve invited the reddit admins to hang out there and use it as our home base, and we intend to take them up on the offer. Come on by and say hello, sign jedberg’s chest, and, while supplies last, pick up a special gift we’re going to be handing out to redditors.

The spot in question is where 7th Street NW intersects the mall, between Madison and Jefferson Drives. The approximate GPS coordinates are(38.890, -77.022). It’ll be one of only two giant 20×20 tents in sight, so we’ll hopefully be hard to miss.

Redditor chop51 has written up a nice cheatsheet of public transit information and rules about what you can and cannot bring.

Once that’s done, we’re going to be heading over to the official reddit afterparty with about 2500 of our closest friends. Since that’s a few thousand more than the place can hold, there are a slew of spillover venues; see the preceding link for details. One of note is Local 16, which is giving out Peroni and Pizza on a free or pay-what-you-want basis, with all proceeds going to DonorsChoose. Details here.

The makers of the iPhone QR code app quiQR have made it free (instead of $1.99) from now until the rally. It’s really fast and tolerant of things like blur and shadows, and I recommend redditors take advantage of this deal.